Sana’a: It was the worst day for soldiers in an Arab state Yemen when militants targeted the military officials across country including capital Sana’a, Jaar and Zinjibar, media reported on Monday.
According to reports at least 90 soldiers were killed when a Yemeni soldier packing powerful explosives under his uniform blew himself up in the middle of an army battalion in Sanaa.
Medics, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the casualties were being treated in seven hospitals across Sanaa. All the dead and injured were soldiers, they added.
Yemen’s defence minister, Mohammed Nasser Ahmed along with other high officials, was present at the time of the explosion but escaped unharmed, the official added.
In other incident Yemen military and tribal sources said that 11 Al-Qaeda fighters and three Yemeni soldiers were killed in the latest fighting around the southern city of Jaar.
The clashes during the night took place mainly at the city’s western entrance, a military source said, adding that 17 soldiers were wounded in the clashes.
However in a separate incident, Al-Qaeda militants attacked a Yemeni military base in Wadi Hassan, east of Zinjibar, killing seven soldiers and wounding 23 others, military officials and medics said, adding that fierce fighting also erupted northeast of the city.
At least 234 people have been killed, during an ongoing operation against militants in the south of the country, including 158 Al-Qaeda fighters, 41 military personnel, 18 local militiamen and 17 civilians.
Residents and tribes in the area surrounding Jaar have formed armed militias, Popular Resistance Committees, to back the army, similar to those formed in other Abyan towns — Loder and Mudia.
According to Western diplomats in Sanaa, US experts have been advising the Yemeni army in combat.
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